Women on the Role of Public Higher Education [electronic resource] : Personal Reflections from CUNY’s Graduate Center /
Gambs, D.editor.
Kim, R.editor.
This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Learning to Be Critical; Chapter 2 The Children of the Whole People Can Be Educated; Chapter 3 Taking Refuge in the Public University: From Harvard to CUNY; Chapter 4 The Personal Is Global, the Political Is Communal, the Rest Is Teaching and Mentoring; Chapter 5 Reflections on My Public Education; Chapter 6 Network Analysis: Personal Connections within and across Academies in NYC; Part II Building Caring Communities; Chapter 7 The Accidental Scholar: Overcoming the Odds and Succeeding through CUNY
Chapter 8 Starting Over, Starting Again: Reflections on the Foreign Student in Public Higher EducationChapter 9 Creating Caring Communities at the Graduate Center; Chapter 10 Learning to Ask Life's Big Questions; Chapter 11 My Not-At-All-Private Metamorphosis: On the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Public School Sp; Part III Becoming and Staying Public; Chapter 12 Striving to Stay Public; Chapter 13 Becoming Public; Chapter 14 An Open University: Taking the Experimental Path; Chapter 15 An International Student's Reflections on the CUNY Years: Far Away, So Close
BibliographyContributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban university.
Higher education.
Sociology.
Educational sociology .
Education and sociology.
Educational sociology.
Social sciences.
Feminist theory.
Higher Education.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of Education.
Sociology of Education.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Feminism.